Street-car turn-table.



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No. 66l,07-7".

Patented Nov. 6, I900. 0. G; RIESKE.

STREET GAB TURN TABLE.

(Application filed July 22, 1899.)

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Patented Nov. 6, I900.

'0. q. RIESKE. STREET CAR TURN TABLE.

(Application filed July 22,' 1899.)

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(No Model.)

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No. 615 077. Patented Nov. 6, I900.

o. a. RIESKE. STREET GAR TURN TABLE.

(Application filed July 22, 1899.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

OTTO G. RIESKE, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO ERNEST B. SCHNEIDER, OF ZANESVILLE, OHIO.

STREET-CAR TU RN-TAB LE.

SPESIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 661,077, dated. November 6, 1900. Application filed July 22, 1899. Serial No. 724,875. No model.)

To all 'LUhOWb it may concern:

Be it known that I, OTTO G. RIESKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton,

in the county of Montgomery and State of of a second controller, and, fourth, it enables the motorman to turn the car by its own power without changing the trolley, without any one to help him, and without leaving his place. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 on Sheet 1 is a top view of the table. Fig. 2 shows trucks of the car on the table. Fig. 3 on Sheet 2 shows the mechanism under the table. Fig. 4 shows the base of the table. Fig. 5 on Sheet 3 shows the hub on which the entire table rests. showsthe table complete-With car in position.

Similarletters refer to similar parts throughout the several views. 7

The table A contains two slots B B, through each of which extend two friction-wheels D D, even with the surface of the table A. In the center of the table A is the hub E, through which a steadying-pin F passes, the same resting on a solid. foundation G, the hubE resting on ball-bearing H H. Said friction-wheels D D are connected by shaftings I I in pairs,

and the same run through the hubs J J of said bottom of the table A. Said pinion L runs in the gear 0, which is stationary on a solid foundation. The friction-wheels D D in the table A being in even dine with the rails of the.

track P P the car will by running on the table A place itself between said friction-wheels D D. By disconnecting wheels Q of the car and turning on the power of the wheels R of the car,

the car is seated in the friction-wheels D D,

when said trolley-pole S will stand in a vertical position. In turning the car the trolley-pole S is stationary,.resting on a pivot U, and the trolley-poleis swiveled, so that the car may turn without turning the pole. After the car has been turned the catch V will hold said table A in proper position, and when power is turned onto the wheels Q the car will be pulled out of said friction-wheels D D, and as the car runs ofi the table A the trolley-pole S will descend the incline Wire T and place itself in proper position.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

of a stationary circular rack, a rotatable plate mounted above said rack and provided with parallel slots, friction-wheels mounted below said plate with their-peripheries proj ected upwardly through said slots and adapted to be engaged by the wheels of the streetcar truck, a pinion engaging with the circular rack and a knuckle-coupling by means of which motion is transmitted from one of the axles of the friction-wheels to said pinion, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. The combination with the street-car, a trolley-pole'having a swiveled connection of an inclined. wire upon which the trolley-pole may run to assume a vertical position, a stationary circular rack, a rotatable plate mount ed above said rack said plate having parallel 1. The combination with a street-car truck In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my oWn I hereto affix my signature in pres- [o ence of two Witnesses.

slots therein, friction-wheels the peripheries of which project through said slots in position to be engaged by the Wheels of the car, a pincoupling by means of which motion is transmitted from an axle of the friction-wheels to said pinion, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

\Vitnesses DORSEY KREITZER, H. S. EIKENBARG.

ion engaging with said circular rack, and a l OTTO G RIFSKF k n J) J. I 

